3.5. In our 2002 report, using CAB International[12]
(CABI) as an example, we noted that it had "drastically reduced"
the number of PhD grade taxonomists that it employed.[13]
The fall in numbers has continued. The following statistics demonstrate
the decline and ultimately the extinction of taxonomy in CABI:

3.15. Another metric is the percentage of UK-based
authors publishing papers in systematic biology journals. The
Linnean Society (p 91) noted a drop of five percentage points
(from 17 per cent to 12 per cent) in the number of UK-based authors
publishing in their three peer-reviewed journals over the period
2001 to 2007. Similarly, but over the 50-year period from 1958
to present, the British Lichen Society noted a decline from over
90 per cent to under 10 per cent of British-based articles in
their journal The Lichenologist (p 210).